Introduction

NOTE: The data and findings below are drafts subject to change and some pieces are still in the QA process.

RACE COUNTS provides a 3D view of racial equity:
PERFORMANCE: How well people are doing. The higher the circle, the better the performance.
DISPARITY: How racial groups compare to one another. The further right the circle, the greater the differences by race.
IMPACT: The total population. The bigger the circle, the larger the population.


Purple counties: Gains at Risk;
Orange counties: Prosperity for the Few;
Yellow counties: Struggling to Prosper;
Red counties: Stuck and Unequal.

Race/Ethnicity Notes


1) “Other” race includes those who identify with a race outside of the specifically named categories, such as Asian, White, etc.
2) Race labels for bar charts: The “nh_” prefix signifies that a group is non-Latinx (excludes Latinx).
3) The “twoormor” group represents those who identify as Two or More Races.

Key Findings

  • There are several key areas where racial disparities exist in educational outcomes across different racial and ethnic groups in the state of California.

  • Across the state, NH-AIAN, NH-Black, Latinx, and NH-Pacific Islander are more likely to experience chronic absenteeism than other groups. (See State Barchart on Chronically Absent Students (%))

  • Additionally, NH-AIAN, NH-Black, Latinx, and NH-Pacific Islander students have lower graduation rates than the state average. NH-Black student graduation rates are 16.7 percentage points lower than the group with the highest rate. (See State Barchart on Graduates as a Percentage of Four-Year Adjusted Cohort Students)

  • NH- Filipinx, NH- Asian, NH- White, and NH- Students of Two or More races experience lower suspension rates. (See State Barchart on students Suspended per 100 Students)

  • More than 50% of Asian, Filipinx, Two or More Races, and White third graders scored proficient in English Language Arts, while less than a third of NH-PI, NH-Black, NH-AIAN, and Latinx students score proficient or better. (See State Barchart on 3rd Graders Scoring Proficient or Better in English Language Arts (%) and 3rd Graders Scoring Proficient or Better in Math (%))

  • ECE access rates are low across the state for all groups, even the best rate means less than one in two children has acess to licensed ECE programs. Still NH-AIAN, Latinx, and NH-Black children all have less acccess to licensed ECE programs than the average child in California. (See State Barchart on Children 0-5 Enrolled in Licensed ECE Program (%))

Indicators

Education Index - UPDATED

  • San Francisco has among the highest racial disparities, driven by large inequities in chronic absenteeism and graduation rates.

  • Most Northern California region counties have lower than average performance, with many counties also exhibiting higher levels of disparity.

Chronic Absenteeism - UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • San Francisco County is by far the most racially disparate on chronic absenteeism. NHPI students have the highest absenteeism rate at 65.9%, which is 58.2 percentage points higher than the group with the lowest rate.

  • Plumas County has the highest rates of absenteeism, with more than half of students (56.2%) being chronically absent. All groups have higher rates, however, Latinx students are the most likely to be chronically absent (61.8%).

State Barchart

  • Statewide, NHPI, NH-Black, NH-AIAN, and Latinx students have the highest rates for chronic absenteeism ranging from 28.9% to 36.6% respectively.

  • NH-Black, NHPI, and NH-AIAN students are 3.5 times more likely to be chronically absent than the group with the lowest rate.

County Barchart

High School Graduation - UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • Mono, Nevada, Inyo, and San Francisco Counties have the lowest graduation rates and the highest racial disparities on this measure.

  • In Mono, only one in three Latinx students graduate.

State Barchart

  • NH-AIAN, NH-Black, Latinx, and NH-PI students have below average graduation rates. Black and NH-AIAN student graduation rates are roughly 16 percentage points lower than the group with the highest rate.

County Barchart

Third Grade English Proficiency - UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • Modoc County has the lowest rates in this measure, with only one in five 3rd graders scoring Proficient or Better in ELA.

  • Imperial County is the most disparate in this measure, with a 41.5 percentage point difference between the groups with the highest and lowest rate.

State Barchart

  • Statewide, two groups emerge. In the first group, fewer than one in three NH-AIAN, Latinx, NH-Black, and NHPI students scored proficient. While in the second group, more than 50% of Asian, Filipinx, Two or More Races, and White third graders scored proficient in English Language Arts.

County Barchart

Third Grade Math Proficiency - UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • Modoc County is the lowest performing on this measure with less than 25% of its students scoring Proficient or Better in Math.

  • Larger population counties have above average levels of racial disparities among racial and ethnic groups for this indicator.

State Barchart

  • Statewide, two groups emerge. In the first group, about one in three NH-AIAN, NH-Black, Latinx, and NH-PI students scored proficient. While in the second group, more than 50% of Asian, Filipinx, White, Two or More Races third graders scored proficient in math.

County Barchart

Suspensions - UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • Inyo County is the most racially disparate for this measure, with suspension rates for NH-AIAN students reaching 7.1% while the suspension rates for the lowest group is 0.

  • Three counties (Modoc, Lake, and Del Norte) in the Northern California region are the lowest performing for this measure, with suspension rates at or nearing 10%.

State Barchart

  • NH-Pacific Islander, Latinx, NH-AIAN, and NH-Black students are suspended at above state average rates.

  • NH-Black students are suspended at a rate 8.0 times higher than the lowest suspension rate.

County Barchart

ECE Access - UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • 22.2% of San Bernardino County children ages 0-5 have access to a licensed ECE program, which is a 62.4 percentage point difference from Modoc County (84.6%), the county with the most access.

State Barchart

  • ECE access rates are low across the state and for all groups, even the best rate means less than one in two children has access. Still NH-AIAN, Latinx, and NH-Black children all have less ECE access than the state average.

County Barchart

Diversity of Teachers - NOT UPDATED

Scatterplot

  • Larger population counties overall are in the Yellow (Lower disparity, Lower performance) Quadrant, with Low Angeles County having the lowest disparity.

  • All but two (Mariposa and Tuolumne) Central Valley counties are in the Yellow (Lower disparity, Lower performance) and Red (Higher disparity, Lower performance) Quadrants.

State Barchart

  • White students have by far the highest representation, with more than 13 White teachers and staff per 100 White students. Compare this to NH-AIANs, the group with the next highest rate, at five per 100 students.

County Barchart